Critter

About this and other make-believe critters that Pamela invents, she says:

This is a little game I play with pencil or pen and paper. I conjure up an imaginary creature, not a monster but a believable-looking creature, and as I'm creating it I consider it's habits and habitat. Is it nocturnal, then give it big eyes... or... I think I'll make this one nocturnal, so it gets big eyes. Aquatic, semi-aquatic, arboreal or terrestrial? Does it dig, tunnel or leap in great bounds? Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore? If it's a carnivore, how does it hunt? Does it need camouflage? Why or why not?

Menagerie

Pamela drew this on the back of a church program dated March 11, 2007.  The speakers that day were Leah Copeland, Elder Beckstrom, and Wade Miller.  Pamela promises that she listens better when she doodles ;o)  It's amazing how each animal emanates a unique personality.

Otters

Once upon a time Pamela made these cute little guys into stamps.  She hand cut the stamps (with her favorite German-made cuticle scissors) out of half-inch thick black foam rubber that was designed to line tool boxes.  Sadly, she can no longer find that foam rubber.  Anyway, when she lived in Monterrey, CA, she and a business partner painted and decorated flower pots and jewelry boxes with these cute little guys and sold them in a gift shop on Cannery Row.

Dog

Crawling Baby

Lion

Sleeping Hound